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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 548666" data-attributes="member: 725">According to the FAQ any material derived from (based on) OGC becomes OGC. Thus according to the FAQ you can make a new OGC magic system but couldn't make non OGC spells for that same magic system (or am i missing something?).[offtopic rant]Now i don't really know what all the fuss is about, but it seems that a lot of companies (even big ones) are not following the Liscence correctly (from not clearly designating OGC to not including the Liscence). Why bother with these details, it seems that WotC isn't really enforcing the liscence rules. Thus if you really wanted to, you could do just about anything without any consequences it seems. Now don't get me wrong, i'm not advocating that anyone does such a thing, but when WotC created the Liscence it accepted responsibility for it and is the only entity that can enforce the Liscence. And as far as i can see WotC only enforces the Liscence when it's own products are threathened (electronic game aids for example). Is it really our place to 'enforce' the rules? A person with half a brain can understand the basic liscence without the aid of a lawyer, why all the additional fuss?[/offtopic rant]Someone gave the example of creating a card gam that is resolved by dice rolls. Now if you used a D20 for that dice roll and you had to throw higher than a certain number, would that be OGC when included in a D20 product? I think it would, because the rolling a die against a target number is an OGC mechanic (although used by lots of other game systems that aren't OGC) mainly because it is in the same book as the other OGC content. If you for example wrote a book about Clinton and then wrote "A certain politician, i'm not saying who, but we all know who, did..." certainly implies Clinton. The same goes for game mechanics, unless you clearly indentify it as belonging to a different gaming system (such as AEG did with L5R). If one just says anything derived from OGC is OGC then everything not clearly marked as from a different gamesystem would be OGC (if it uses OGC mechanics).ps. do i really need to state that i'm not a lawyer? And even if i where, that my opinions (because that's what lawyers give) don't mean squat in the courtroom?pps. happy christmas!</blockquote>

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